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Providers in the child care subsidy system: Insights into factors shaping participation, financial well-being, and quality

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Child care providers play a key role in achieving the goals of the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF): supporting both healthy child development and parents' pathways to economic stability. To accomplish these goals, high-quality providers in every community must be willing to accept child care subsidies, and the subsidy system needs to support providers’ ability to stay in business while delivering high-quality services. But relatively little is known about what factors shape the willingness of providers to participate in the subsidy system or how involvement with subsidies affects providers' financial well-being and quality. These issues are especially salient given the recent reauthorization of the CCDF (and related rules) that encourage states to implement provider-friendly policies and practices and require states to support a supply of quality care in underserved areas and for underserved populations. This paper provides insights into these issues to help inform implementation of the new rules by revisiting survey and focus group data collected from child care centers, family child care homes, and child care subsidy administrators and workers in five counties across four states in 2003 and 2004. We focus on child care assistance paid through vouchers, whereby parents choose the care they want (as long as it meets basic standards set by the subsidy system) and public funds are used to cover some or all of the cost. (author abstract)
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